“MAGA Is in the Find Out Phase” — Rep. Jasmine Crockett Calls Out MTG and Trump

Thanks so much for being here Congresswoman, it's always good to have you. So today's speaker Johnson told CNN's Maya Nourajiou that he never tried to kill the discharge petition to force this onto the floor, the Epstein bill, onto the floor for a vote, but he shares President Trump's concerns about the bill. Take a listen.

We wanted to ensure that victims of these heinous crimes are completely protected from

disclosure, those who don't want their names to be out there. And I'm not sure the discharge does that and that's part of the problem.

What's your response to that? I would cuss but I'm not going to. I'm just saying he's full of it. Number one. Mrs. Cable you can cuss. I'm not gonna do it but I am going to say that he is full of it. Okay I'm gonna do it. He full of shit because here's the thing number one We know that he didn't even bring the house back in because he was trying to avoid us dealing with Epstein In fact, he would not even swear in a duly elected now new member of Congress Depriving and having to be sued by her state and others because they literally did not have any representation He violated the constitution to avoid this.

So miss me on pretending that this is about the victims. In addition to that, when we finally released some of the information that we got from the Epstein estate and we had all the victims names redacted, who was it that was out there saying, oh, and this person is the person

that is supposedly mentioned in this section. The Republicans did that to the extent that that victim's family had to come out against them for revealing potentially her name. So they're full of it. So right now, what I think is going to happen, the only reason that he is switched is because obviously, he has had lots of conversations. Either the Senate is not going to take it up, or they don't have the votes in the Senate.

One of the two. But he never plans for this to actually go forward.

Oh, you think this is gonna get killed in the Senate?

I think that this is gonna get killed some way, somehow. Or the other option is that I think they're going to do the very same thing, and not necessarily the same thing, but the very reason that the files could not be released before is because there were active cases that were taking place All the cases have been concluded because this administration decided they didn't want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein So they weren't going to investigate whatsoever. So now the files can be open, but now he said look into my enemies

I want you to invest the right this hoax Well, if there's open cases, then that is your excuse for legally not allowing those documents to be out.

Well, you're saying something that Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky, whose bill this is, to force the Epstein files out. Trump has told the Justice Department to investigate prominent Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton

and their alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. That concerns Massey for the reason you said.

Take a listen.

If they have ongoing investigations in certain areas, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smoke screen, these investigations, to open a bunch of them as a last ditch effort to prevent the release of the Epstein files.

Or it could just block the release of the ones having to do with Democrats and any other people that might be released. But either way you share his concern.

Yeah, absolutely. I don't think that this is about all of a sudden he woke up on the right side of history, right? Like, I don't. He has consistently gone against his own base. He's told them on Truth Social, stop talking about this. They shut down the house in a time when Americans could not eat all because they did not want to deal with the Epstein files. And he has called it a hoax.

And now he's saying that, well, there's something to investigate. He is all over the place. The one thing that we know for sure is that he was sued not once, but at least twice by alleged child sex victims alongside Epstein. You tell me what other Democrat was named as a defendant alongside Epstein prior to all of this jazz ever happening. We're talking about nine years ago.

Just just to note that those cases never went anywhere.

They didn't go anywhere. But the allegations definitely were made and they were made in coordination with someone that we know after looking at the emails Jeffrey Epstein when he was charged in 2009 he said in those emails I'm going to have to take the deal for the mandatory minimum of 10 years because I'm afraid I will get more time. After he got a sweetheart deal from Alex Acosta he then ended up indicted again in 2019. So the one thing that I can tell you is while those civil cases may have gone away, we know

for sure that Epstein himself admitted that he was a criminal. So just because the cases went away, it doesn't necessarily mean that the president has been

absolved. I want to ask you about your house colleague, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Yeah. Viewers will remember you once called her a bleach blonde bad built butch body during a House committee meeting. For the record, she insulted you first. She had insulted you first.

That is true.

The rivalry aside, you both agree on the Epstein thing. This has put her on the outs with President Trump. I want to play something that she said to my colleague Dana Bash yesterday on CNN.

I would like to say humbly I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics. It's very bad for our country. It's been something I've thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, is that I'm only responsible for myself and my own words and actions. And I am going, I am committed, and I've been working on this a lot lately, to put down the knives and politics.

You posted, this almost feels like a moment where Marge should phone a friend. I'm here for you, girl. Have you spoken? And what's your reaction to what you just said?

I do want to I want you to know that there was sarcasm. I assume so. But I didn't want to say I was being sarcastic, but there's always a little bit of truth in jest. So I do wanna be clear that another portion of that post is I said, I told you you couldn't trust him. And I believe that. I believe that we all need to pay attention to Trump and how he acts.

He is the cause of all the confusion and the destruction that we have seen in politics as far as I'm concerned. Because it used to be we could disagree and that was that. I disagree with a lot of Republicans, but it does not necessarily turn violent. Ever since he's been introduced into politics, we have seen a consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.

So here's the deal with Marjorie. I can appreciate what she says, but I'm gonna have to see her actions. And the reality is that where was this type of mood when we saw what happened to Mr. Pelosi in his home, who's not even an elected official,

but because somebody decided to go after Nancy Pelosi. Where was this when we saw that we had local elected leaders murdered here recently, the former Speaker of the House in Minnesota? Like, where was this, right? And so what is so frustrating for me with not only Marjorie, but MAGA as a whole, is they're in the find out phase. And so now that it's hitting them, they're like, oh my gosh, this is awful. But you should

have looked at this externally and said, this is an awful environment. The fact that one of y'all competing news brands decided to go out and do a whole story on the fact that I pay for security, security I have to pay because of the dumb stories that they run about me,

security that I have to pay for because of all of the hate that people like Marjorie and other MAGAs put out there, it is problematic. And then to have the president troll her, as well as Laura Loomer, troll her about the fact that she needs security.

Well, my only answer is, if the president thinks this is a joke, then give us all the money back for the security that we pay for, for him to go and golf, or to go and wherever he is going. Give us the money back and maybe some Americans

can get some healthcare and maybe some children can get some healthcare and maybe some children can get some food.